Included in his diatribe was the unfortunate choice of words, “the blessing of slavery,” a phrase that both Lecrae, a Black man, and Cathy could be seen nodding their heads in agreement to.
But we miss the blessing of slavery that it actually built up the framework for the world that white people live in and lived in.”
“And so a lot of people call this white privilege and when you say those two words it just is like a fuse goes off for a lot of white people because they don’t want somebody telling them to check their privilege,” he added before offering a solution where one wasn’t needed in the first place.
“And I think maybe a great thing for me is to call it ‘white blessing’ — that I’m lying in the blessing of the curse that happened generationally that allowed me to grow up in Atlanta … where Black people did not have equal rights in this city (Atlanta).”
But on the surface, it ironically appeared that he was exercising his innate white privilege while attempting to redefine white privilege because white people are uncomfortable with the term white privilege as the nation continues to protest against racism.
